Irish digital marketing,
no fluff.

The content brand of Dublin web design studio digitaldesign.ie. Articles, live website reviews, podcast episodes, and honest guides to Irish digital marketing — the kind of content we wish existed when we were starting out.

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What The Marketing Pod is

The Marketing Pod is the editorial and content arm of Dublin web design studio digitaldesign.ie. It's where we publish our thinking: long-form articles on Irish digital marketing, live reviews of Irish websites, podcast conversations with business owners and designers, and honest breakdowns of the topics that matter to small Irish businesses.

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Journal

Long-form guides on Irish web design, SEO, content marketing, and digital strategy. Covers the Trading Online Voucher €2,500 grant, UX, and how to commission web design without getting burned.

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Website Reviews

We review real Irish business websites — design, UX, mobile, speed, SEO. Honest verdicts, specific suggestions, no softening. See the reviews →

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Podcast

Live site reviews on air, interviews with Irish business owners, and plain-language breakdowns of digital marketing topics. Listen to episodes →

Featured guides

The most-asked Irish digital-marketing questions, answered in full.

TOV grant

The Trading Online Voucher €2,500 web design grant — how it actually works

11 min read · small-business funding

The 50/50 government grant for small Irish businesses adding e-commerce to their websites. What you can spend it on, what you can't, and the application traps that catch first-time applicants.

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TOV grant

How the 90/10 web design grant split actually works

7 min read · grant mechanics

The €2,500 TOV grant has been described as a "90/10" pay split between government and applicant. Here's what that actually means, and why some applicants find it's closer to 50/50 in practice.

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Web design

Web design trends Irish small businesses should pay attention to

9 min read · design trends

What the 2026 web-design conversation is genuinely getting right — and what's still expensive fashion that won't pay back. Practical guide for owners who'd rather skip the agency hype.

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SEO

An SEO tutorial for people who hate SEO tutorials

12 min read · SEO foundations

The seven things that move Irish small-business search rankings. The five things people obsess about that don't. Why most "SEO audits" are nonsense.

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Strategy

How to create a digital marketing strategy for a small Irish business

10 min read · strategy

Strip out the consultant-speak. A workable digital marketing strategy is four pages of plain English; here's the four pages.

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UX

Web design and user experience: where small businesses go wrong

8 min read · UX

The five UX patterns that wreck small-business websites — and the five that quietly drive 80% of conversion gains.

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What we publish

Honest content. No sponsored posts dressed as editorial. No generic "10 marketing tips" content. If we've written about something, it's because we've lived it — either through client work at digitaldesign.ie or through direct experience with the Irish digital market.

Journal articles

Long-form, researched guides on Irish web design and digital marketing. Updated when the landscape changes — not left to go stale.

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Website reviews

Real Irish websites, reviewed honestly. Design, UX, copy, mobile, speed. No relationship with the businesses we review.

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Podcast

Interviews, live reviews on air, and topic deep-dives. Irish digital marketing the way it's actually done.

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